Sr Technical Program Manager
Amazon
IT, Operations
Seattle, WA, USA
Description
This role is on the Chronicle team within Selling Partner Services. We own the Turismo product suite, which is powered by Ripple, a dynamic query engine. Turismo is a well loved product, with various users globally. Ripple is a PrestoDB based query engine that is built to scale, and processes multiple queries per week. We are a full stack team, with Product managers, UX designers, TPMs, SDEs, DEs and Data Scientists.
Impact
Ever wondered how Amazon offers the Earth's biggest selection and still manages to offer lower prices every day to our customers? Our retail business teams work with a massive array of vendors and business financial performance metrics to expand selection and drive costs lower. Given the rapid growth of our business, this requires our category leaders, financial analysts, site merchandisers and vendor managers to quickly analyze vendors, categories and brands, diving deep into data showing business efficiency down to the unit sale level. The technology that enables this has huge visibility and impact and is critical to Amazon's continued profitability and growth.
Innovation
We're working on the future. If you are seeking an environment where you can drive innovation. If you want to apply state-of-the-art software technologies to solve real world problems. If you want the satisfaction of providing visible benefit to end-users in an iterative fast paced environment, this is your opportunity. The responsibilities of this role will be key in paving the future of Amazon Retail and transforming how we do business.
Opportunity
You will be part of a team of creative, top-notch engineers who work hard, have fun, and make history.
Key job responsibilities
This role requires working closely with businesses across Amazon, the product management team, and key software development teams across the company to define strategy and requirements, and then lead projects through operations design and delivery. This position involves regular communication with senior management on status, risks and product strategy. Excellent listening, writing skills and strong technical competency are essential. The ideal candidate has thrived and succeeded in delivering broadly adopted technology products/services in a very high growth environment where priorities shift quickly. They are a strong leader who can prioritize well, communicate clearly and compellingly and who understands how to drive a high level of focus and excellence. Qualified candidates have experience defining projects and features, collecting requirements, writing detailed functional and test specifications, coordinating large cross functional projects and schedules, and delivering complex projects with accurate results at high scale.